The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1887-10-27
NEWS IN BRIEF.

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The first snow storm of the season
prevailed at Detroit, Mich., October p.
Hon. Z. B. Washburn, ex-Minister
to France, died at Chicago October -. %
Three men were killed by an oven
explosion at Bristol, Conn, on Satur-
day.
A disastrous fire occurred in st.
Louis on Saturday night. Loss $780,
900.
Another meeting to protest against
the hanging of the Chicago Anarch-
lists was held in Boston Sunday.
Mr.. Davis has accepted the invita-
ton to visit the Georgia State Fair in
Macon, and is now in attendance in
that city.
The Georgia Legislature has ad-
journed after four months session.
OF all the public measures discussed,
none were finally adopted.
Robert Garrett will spend the WIN
ter in the City of Mexico, and will
probably withdraw from all the i'm
portant enterprises with which his
name has been connected.
Further argument will be heard in
the Anarchist case in the United
States Supreme Court to-day, and the
attorney general of Illinois will speak
in opposition to the jurisdiction of the
Court.
A disastrous fire October q destroyed
two entire blocks in the business cen-
ire of Narinette, Wis. About twenty
five stores, besides number Of dwell
ings, were burned, entailing a loss Of
$1,000
Floods in Cuba have inundated the
village of Rouque and hundreds of per-
sons have been rendered homeless.
Numerous springs have appeared, and
have formed several lakes, which are
gradually uniting.
For several years G. w. Huntsinger,
a ditch-walker on the Hand gold mine
ditch, in Georgia, has walked twenty
one miles every day in the week, eX-
cept Sunday, making 6,573 miles a
year.
Holy Trinity church, New York,
has been fined 81 ,0GO for violating the
contract labor law in engaging the SER
vices Of the Rev. Walpole Warren, Of
England. An appeal was taken and a
test case will be made.
Hostility between Russia and Ger
many is growing. The Gar returning
home from Copenhagen will not touch
German soil. Russian import duties
discriminate against German products.
Fortitications on the Russo-German
frontier are being strengthened on
both sides.
It is estimated that 100000 people
visited Atlanta during the Exposition
not more than half of whom could be
accommodated with places to sleep,
and not much more than morsel to
satisfy their hunger. However, it was
the greatest congregation Of Southern
people in the history of the United
States.
Among the gifts lately presented to
Prince Bismarck was an immensely
massive and heavy writing-desk made
of cannon balls, sent him by an Eng
lish admirer. When he saw it the
Chancellor exclaimed: "God grant
that cannon balls may be always as
peacefully employed"
Mr.. VIM. Graham, barrister, has
been instructed to draw the papers
for the Times defence in the action
brought against that paper by Frank
Hugh O'Donnell in $4,000 damages
for libel in publishing remarks about
him in its articles on "Parnellism and
Crime" Mr.. Henry James and Mr..
Lumley Smith will defend the Times.
Excavations in Jerusalem on the
ground belonging te the Russian Gov
eminent have resulted in the discovery
of the remains Of an ancient town
wall, and the position Of the gates Of
the town during the lifetime of Christ.
The Grand Duke Sergius, president Of
the Palestine Society, invites subscrip-
tions to the fund for the purpose Of
preserving these relics.
4 furious gale, accompanied by snow
and rain, was raging on the lakes Sun
day, and it is feared that the loss to
shipping will be heavy. A s. ooial
from Sheboygan says: "a mort t
gale, accompanied by binding SLOW
storm, has been sweeping over Lake
Huron and the straits since daylight.
The ground is covered with snow, and
if the storm ltinues until morning
the snow will lie several inches deep.
1t is feared that on account of the
binding snow shipping in transit will
suffer disaster"
The French Government has granted
concession to the French company
for a cable connecting Brazil, Central
America, the Antilles and New York,
,, and $1,000, ,G0Of is reported to have been
subscribed for it by syndicate includ-
ing the Credit Foncier, the Compton
d'Escornpte and the Transatlantic
Bank. Work on the new lines is 70
begun Immediately. y land line will
connect New York and Charleston,
from which city cable will be laid to
Havana. From Havana another will
90 to Hayti or San Domingo, thence
to Guadaloupe or Martinique, and
thence to French Guiana, where con-
nection will be made with the Brazil
ian land line for Rio, Pernambuco and
other South American points. 4 short
cable will be laid between San Donlin-
60 and Jamaica, connecting with the
system now existing in Central Amer
lea and the western course of South